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East Fortune Farm, Dovecot
Dovecot (18th Century)
Site Name East Fortune Farm, Dovecot
Classification Dovecot (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) East Fortune Dovecote
Canmore ID 56346
Site Number NT57NW 7
NGR NT 54763 79225
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/56346
- Council East Lothian
- Parish Athelstaneford
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District East Lothian
- Former County East Lothian
NT57NW 7 54763 79225.
(NT 54763 79225) Dovecot (NR)
OS 6" map (1968)
Dovecot, East Fortune: At the roadside, now free-standing but once part of a range of buildings, there is a dovecot in the upper part of a lectern, measuring 19ft by 16ft and 24ft high, with a slate roof and plain sloping gables. The random rubble walls are about 2ft thick; on the rear parapet are stone ball ornaments, a weathervane and socket. There six entry holes in a row midway up the roof, once possibly more. In the interior are 348 nests made of bricks and tiles; 35 large recesses in the lower storey are probably for hens. It is in good repair outside, poor inside; many pigeons.
J Whitaker 1938
East Fortune House (at NT 5472 7929) is dated 1768; this dovecot is of the same period. It is in the S wall of what seems to have been an 18th century steading.
C McWilliam 1978
This dovecot is as described by the previous authorities.
Visited by OS (BS) 15 July 1975
Photographic Survey (September 1960 - 1962)
Photographic survey of dovecots in East Lothian by the Scottish National Buildings Record in 1960-1962.
